Turn of the Tide in Croatia - Music - British Council

	Richard Frostick’s Music For All Education Project with The Turn of the Tide in Croatia


	1998 - 2001 with performances of The Turn of the Tide: 31 January – 4 February 2001

The turn of the tide in Croatia - credit Peter Maxwell Davies

UK musician, Richard Frostick, and Ruzica Ambrus Kis, Head of Music at the Elly Basic School, Zagreb, came together to explore music education for children in Croatian primary schools.

Credit: Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Turn of the Tide in Croatia, January 2001.

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The project was specifically targeted at children in ordinary schools, as specialist music schools are already well developed in Croatia. In collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Education, Richard Frostick and British Council Croatia organised the Music for All Education Project, a series of workshops for children aged 8-, 11- and 13-years-old.

The turn of the tide in Zagreb, Croatia - credit Peter Maxwell Davies

Richard Frostick worked with the children and with Croatian primary and secondary music teachers on the theme of improvisation. The first series of workshops was so successful that they engaged a professional orchestra to work with the children on a production of Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Turn of the Tide, staged at Zagreb’s Music Biennale Festival. The final concert was magnificent, with 300 children singing in the choir and 100 children playing the music they had composed with the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radio and Television.

Credit: Peter Maxwell Davies' The Turn of the Tide in Zagreb, January 2001.

The British Council funded visits to Croatia by Richard Frostick and the conductor Paul MacAlindin, and the Croatian Ministry of Education funded the workshops and the Music Biennale production. On the top of that, the Ministry of Education and Zagreb City Council donated funds for primary schools to purchase musical instruments. Following this success, in April 2003 we completed a further music education project in Croatia, Between The Notes. This project took place in Karlovac with high school children aged 16-17 years-old.

More information about Music For All in Croatia.